SHOULD I WAIT TO BUY A NEW GAMING PC?!?!

I have saved up quite a bit of money, and plan to blow it all on a new gaming PC, the question is should I wait? or go ahead and throw down some serious cash? Is PCI-Express 2.0 coming out soon enough? Should I wait for AMD's 4x4 platform?.........? Is this technology expected to be available by next spring?...Any comments/response is welcome! Thanks!

Well are there any rumors as to when PCI-Express 2.0 and AMD 4x4 might come out?

I highly doubt current systems running quad cores or the e6xxx line of core 2's are going to not be good enough. They are actually ahead of their time because games and apps right now don't utilize two cores, let alone four. And other than ddr3, ram isn't going anywhere fast. The same with HDD's, other than speed. And now that mobos are being futureproofed, such as gigabyte's p35c-ds3r, which boasts support for ddr3 and the penryn line of Intel cpus, they will be ready for dx10 and the future also. The only thing I'd worry about upgrading are video cards, because those get dated fast.

ops that piece i mentioned comparing different combinations of cpu's and gpu's was=
http://www.legionhardware.com/docu [...] d=672&p=14

So did I make a mistake by upgrading to an e6600 a month ago?

Any input on my question?

Eucharistadorer, I don't think you waisted you're money, its still a sweet CPU. I'm still using my good ol AMD 4200 X2 which has seen a lot of service, I've got the money, but I'm still putting off my next build because of 2 main factors.

I want to see how a couple DX10 games run on the new DX10 cards and if newer games will actually use two or more cores effectively.

That and i have the luxury of time, I'm going to be starting a new 3 month contract soon, so I'll be living in the bush somewhere looking at rocks. So i wont be put out by not being able to play the new games i want because of my computer. It will be because I'm probably going to be out in the sun, running away from snakes, angry locals and catching malaria

As it stands now, many games claim to be dual core optimized, like Supreme Commander, but if i keep the system monitor running, I still see one core running a good solid 98% usage, and the other core as little as 5% usage. Duel core optimized my a**

So if i had to upgrade in the last couple months i would have got the e6600, or the e6750 if I'd waited for the price drops, because they give the best bang for you're buck right now... for gaming, which is the only criteria in any of my builds, i don't care if i have to wait an extra 20 min when encoding movies, i do care how good my game experinece is.

But don't worry, even if i do decide to get a 4 core phenom, Intel will release a new killer chip a couple months later, then AMD will come back with the next Intel killer after that and so on. I just want to see if Crysis, the new valve engine, and Hellgate London play well on duels or quads and what graphics card to get.